This study aims to present a comparative
analysis of philosophical theories of
universals espoused by the foremost
representatives of the three main schools of
early modern scholastic thought. The book
introduces the doctrines of Francisco Suárez,
S.J. (1548–1617), the Thomist John of St.
Thomas, O.P. (1589–1644), and the Scotists
Bartolomeo Mastri da Meldola, O.F.M. Conv.
(1602–1673) and Bonaventura Belluto, O.F.M.
Conv. (1600–1676). The author examines in
detail their mutual doctrinal delineation as
well as the conceptualist tenet of the Jesuit
Pedro Hurtado de Mendoza (1578–1641), whose
thought constitutes an important systematic
point of comparison especially with Suárez’s
doctrine. The book offers the first comparative
elaboration of the issue of universals, in both
its metaphysical and its epistemological
aspects, in the era of second
scholasticism.

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